Idea Info Name: A.E. Index: Primary Category: RPG Submitted: 2/28/2004 1:57:51 AM Written By: otto Game Architecture and Design: A New Edition Book Highly Recommended !

A.E
After Earth

Genre: RPG, Shooter, Online
Rating: T for Teen
Platforms: XboX, PS2, GameCube
Players: 1-4 (offline) 1-12 (online)
Memory card: 500 K.B (PS2) 18 blocks (GCN)

Contents:
1. Story
2. Game play
3. Enemies
4. Weapons
5. Graphics
6. Multiplayer
7. Online Gaming
8. In Game Options

1. Story:
This story begins, in the year 2400. The world has changed greatly and all the nations have united to create one mighty empire. This empire is ruled by a group of 12 members who have equal powers over the entire planet Earth. Technology has of course greatly increased, and is helped the planet life much much easier. Space technology has been advanced to new levels never ever dreamed of reaching. Light speed traveling has been discovered only in the past decade. Space scientists have began colonizing the outer planet Mars that is successfully growing plants on Martian soil and allowing oxygen to enter the atmosphere. The first 8 cities have already been finished and People have been transported there. This has greatly reduced the population. However all is not at ease as Martian scouters have unearthed an ancient architect of great magnitude. Earth scientists have explored this architect and found symbols, which resemble the earth’s alphabet, though with a few changes. As the scientists discovered more and more to this architect they did not also find out clues about it, but it questioned the evolution of how man did come to earth. After a decade of research the scientists uncovered a tomb room inside the architect, or what it was called: an ancient temple. They opened the tomb and foolishly awakened, the seemed to be asleep human. The so-called human, or what it seemed like awoke and killed all the scientists around him though he kept one prisoner. The prisoner was taken to the underground hall of the temple and was spoken to in English from the alleged human. The scientist explained everything with a few questions, who or what is he and what did he want from him. The human explained that he was an ancient ruler of his kingdom called Akira and there were many others like him. One day a mighty beast of unimaginable power came and tore down Akira's kingdom. The beast was claimed to be an alien with an entire galaxy worth of others just like him. He came from the mighty elders to claim planet Mars. Though the beast was refused his demand, he killed everyone on the planet. A few hand picked survivors left with Akiras order to another planet, and were never to be seen again. Akira then explained that he put himself to sleep and that he was awakened again. Akira did not remember anymore. Earths evolution was finally solved. It seemed that the survivors landed on Earth and adapted. They soon became what is mankind today. The scientist astonished left to Earth with Akira and they explained to the World the whole story. Akira though did give a warning that the beast that killed Mars population still roamed the galaxy, and that he if he was not put to rest the beast would hunt him and kill him. A few month's later, a great energy signal was picked up and it was coming straight to Earth. The signal was a fiery tear dropped metallic object: on a collision course to Earth! A few day later the object landed with such force. It was a very gigantic spaceship of the beast. It was so huge that it destroyed the city of Rome as it landed. Many others arrived and caused allot of destruction. These objects landed in random parts of the world, and destroyed anything within a 50,000-mile radius. At this point cities were crushed, monuments exterminated, people died, that in a matter of hours the earths population dwindled down to a mere 3 which were then hunted down and obliterated. The Beasts within had Earth all to themselves and no one to stop them. Right before they were destroyed though Mars sent down a Black market project that was found missing. This project was a genetically enhanced human that was powered by minerals found in rocks on Mars. This human never made it intact though it did awake. It was missing only an arm but the rock minerals were keeping him alive. He found a deserted, destroyed army base and manufactured his arm back using metal. His I.Q was also increased a hundred fold by the minerals, so he knew what he was doing. He armed himself with weapons and set out to find out what happened. Now the action begins.

2.Gameplay:
The game play is not very complicated and not that simple. There are 2 bars on the screen, one is blue and the other green. The blue bar is your HP or health bar. The green bar is your SP bar or special powers bar. The HP bar can decrease as you get damage, of course, and it can also increase as you advance tomore levels. The SP bar is a special bar that gives you the energy to do certain special manuvuers. Such as if you wanted to do a disable kill, it would take up 12 SP to do so. There is a number icon next to both bars that can show you how much you have of both. The SP bar can fill up to 9999 and so can the HP bar. Now everytime you kill an enemy you gain EXP or experience points. Every 1000 EXP points you collect, increases you to the next level,  unlocks three new abilities, and also permanantly increases your SP and HP bars. When fighting there are no taking turns, to do each other damage. The fighting is exactly like Kingdom Hearts, where you can move and attack the enemy at your own pace. This allows you total control over the battle. There are many weapons to choose from, though they are all guns. There are also martial arts manuevers you can do. There are 50 to obtain in the whole game. Certain moves can break the opponents arms, give him heavy internal damage, concussion blows, pressure point kills, and a bunch of acrobatic manuevers to do. The location you fight in is in the whole earth, you can also travel if you find a intact vehicle or boat. When using vehicles you can only accelarate, brake, get out, and fire weapons if the vehicle does have any.

3.Enemies:
    There are 3 types of enemies that you can encounter: Beasts, Animals, and Beasts monsters. There are 5 types of Beasts. They are Souters, Patrollers, Gunners,  Mage's and Super-soldiers. Scouters are the weakest and most easiest to kill. Their HP is 200-900. Patrollers are weak but have good defense. Their HP is 400-1500. Gunners are moderatly tough and have good weapons and defense. Their HP is 700-3000. Mages are real tough, they have bad defense but near perfect offense. They are also extremly slow. Their HP is 2500-8500. Super-soldiers, are extremly tough. They have good offense and defense. There only weakness is that they cant stand chemicals. Their HP is 2500-9000. Animals are small and are not a threat at all. They have only one attack. Their HP is only 50-750. Beast monsters are creatures from the Beasts homeland. they are all gigantic and tough, but too slow. Their HP is 900-2000.

4. Weapons 
    There are only guns to choose from and there are 25 weapons which are human made and 10 weapons which are Beast made. Some of the weapons that are human made are advanced like the tri barelled shot gun with 25 bullets a shot and 100 bullets a round. it carries only 2 rounds. There is also the plasma rifle which fires plasma bolts and can carry upyo a hundred bolts in its tank. There are also the originals like modified AK-47's and 9mm pistols. some weapons such as the MAC gun can kill a Mage instantly. The MAC is a magnetic accelarater cannon.  The beast weapons are Saber blaster which are mounted on your arms and fire homing rays of electrical beams at the opponents. There is also the JackHammer rocket launcher, which fire chemical radiation on contact. With 2 shots it coould nearly kill a Super-soldier. The last weapon that is hard to find is a plasma machine gun. This gun can fire 300 bullets of plasma a round and carries 50 rounds. two rounds with this guan and it can obliterate three super-soldiers in one go.

5. Graphics. and Sound
   The graphics to  this game are just like Final Fantasy X-2. The cut scenes and movie scenes are just like Kingdom Hearts. The menu graphics show A destroyed city of Earth, which could be New York, Rome, Paris, or LA. The opening scene has a beast walking around on duty and then out of nowhere it gets blown to bits by a MAC gun. The Blue Blood then splashes on the screen and it forms into the name A.E: after earth. The music is usually fast when battle and when moving around it is just soft sad music. the menu music is slow orchestra sound showing the destroyed city.

6. Multiplayer.
  The multipalyer for this game are upto 4 players. You do not engage into battle when you see them, because the game is already in battle mode once you begin. You can play capture the flag, last-man standing, free for all or, online. You can start shooting anytime or fighting anytime in the fileds. The locations of play are from the main game like destroyed NY city, or LA. At the begining you equip your guy or customize a profile for him and then go head to head. All the unlocked weapons in the main game are available in the multiplayer also. The characters you choose can be the main character, or any of the beasts. each start of with equal health or the deafult health setting.

7.Online Gaming
    Online is one of the great things about playing multiplayer, so I have chosen to add that in. When playing online you can join many games and go head to head in may types of game play, there are capture the flag, last man standing, free for all, team death match, Or just one on one, martial arts style. The online feature is only available for XboX live and PS2 online, because the GameCube online feature is horrible. the health settings can not be changed so you could be going against someone who is already beaten the game and has 7000 HP and you only have 2000 HP. You can also host your own game and choose your own team.The headset is also used when playing online. Once the game is set you equip your guy and go head to head.

8. In Game Options. 
   The ingame options start at the menu screenn, where you can start a new game, load a game, multiplayer, go online, and options. the options menu allow you to change sound, display, controller configuration, tutorials, save game, and load game. The tutorials are instruction videos on how to play the game. You can configure the controls to your liking and the display and sound settings.

        Thats all there is to this game.